Dish-washer.



CORNELIUS J DUSSEAU, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

DISH-WASHER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 5, 1915.

Application filed, March 27, 1914. Serial No. 827,540.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CORNELIUS J. Bus- SEAU, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and usefulDish-Washer; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,

and exact description of the'invention, such.

as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the reference being had to the accomand to the characters of which form a yet the machine produced will be efficient and durable and one wherein the mechanism may be easily removed for purposes of cleaning and easily replaced.

By my invention, comparatively very little water is required to perform the operation of washingdishes.

The invention may be contained in many forms of constructions all of which come within the purview of my claims hereinafter appended. To show the practicability of my invention, I have selected one of such constructions as an example and shall describe it hereinafter. The construction selected is illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 of the drawing, illustrates a side view partly insection of my invention. Fig. 2 illustrates a top view of the construction shown in Fig. 1 with a part of the cover removed. Fig. 3 illustrates a Sectional view showing the manner in which the parts of the-cover may be locked. Fig. {1 illustrates a part of the mechanism for operating the machine. Fig. 5 illustrates the vanes used for dashing the water upon the dishes. Fig. 6 is a sectional view of one of the vanes shown in Fig. 5.

1, Fig. 1, is a container or receptacle for containing the dishes and also the washing apparatus.

2 is a standard for supporting the receptacle 1. The standard 2 has legs 3 which are connected and braced to ether by means of the diagonalparts 4. no side of the standard is provided with arms 5 which are connected to sleeves 6 which have limit stops 7. The arms 5 are curved near the supporting end so as to bring them nearer together and in parallel relation to each other. The arms 5 may be turned on one of the legs 3 so as to extend beneath the receptacle 1. They may be turned so as to extend outwardly by rotation of the sleeves 6 on the legs 3. They form a means of support for a pan or pail or shelf or other suitable device or article.

The container 1 is provided with an inturned flange'or circular angle iron 10 located on the inside and near the upper edge of the container 1. a A cross bar 11 is located on the top of the angle iron 10 and ex- .tends diametrically across the top of the container. It is secured inposition by means of the wing nuts and bolts 12 which are located in slots 20 formed in the ends of the bar 11.- The bar 11, together with the parts connecting thereto, may be removed by unscrewing the wing nuts and slipping them laterally in the slot until one end of the bar 11 is disengaged, whereupon the bar may be lifted together with theparts connected thereto, from the machine. The bar 11 is rabbeted along the edges 13. Semicircular sheet iron covers 14 are placed on the rabbeted edges of the bar 11 and the circular angle iron 10. They are each provided with a latch bar 15 which is pivoted to the cover by the bolt 16. The ends of the latch bar extend'within inclined slots 17 and 18 located in the upper edge-of the receptacle 1 and in the .diagonal bar 11. When the latch 15 is rotated in one direction, its ends penetrate the slots-17 and 18 which operate to press the edge of the semicylindrical cover down upon the rabbeted edge of the bar 11 and the circular angle iron 10. The handle 19 is connected to the latch bar 15 and is used for turning the latch bar 15 and also for lifting "the semlcylindrical cover when it is unlatched from the container. The diagonal bar 11 supports a casting 25 having an inside bearing 26 and a bearing pin 27. A shaft 28 extends through the bearing 26. A pinion 29 is keyed to the shaft 28. An inside cog wheel 30 is placed upon the bearing pin 7. It meshes with the pinion 29 and when rotated, rotates the pinion at high speed. The cog wheel 30 is provided with a handle 31 whereby it may be manually operated. The shaft 28 is stepped into a disk 32. casting 33 is keyed to the lower end of the shaft 28. The casting is provided with scoops 35.

arms 34 to which are riveted vanes or The vanes or scoops 35 have angular extending flanges 36 along their vanes 35.

' edge 38 of the vanes. By this construction,

over, are inclined to the plane of the vanes so that the acute angle ofthe triangle shaped flange 37' is located at the leading when the vanes are rotated, they will scoop up Water placed in the bottom of the contamer 1 and will throw. it'up and outward by centrifugal force and by the action of the flanges 36 and '37. There will, there: fore, be very little water which will be pushed to one side'by the operation of the scoops or vanes. They will collect prac: tically all of the water and throw it upward and outward fromthe center of the bottom of the container.

A wire rack 40 is located on the bottom of the container 1. It extends from around the shaft 28 to the outer wall of the container. It is so made as to form a part 41 located above the paddles. This prevents the paddles from striking the dishes placed in the container 1. The wire rack 40 is also provided with'an annular part 42, which slopes inwardly and is located a little below the level of the inner portion '41 of the rack 40 The dishes are placed preferably onthe annular portion 42. .the paddles are rotated, they scoop up the 7 water and dash it upon the dishes located upon the annular portion 42- of the rack.

. Articles may also be placed upon the een= 40.

tral portion 41 of the'rack'whichwill also receive some of the water carried upward by the paddles of the machine. 'In order to prevent the paddles or vvanes from colle'cting the'material washed from the plates in the operation of the machine, a screen 45 is located around the outside of the central portion o"f"'the rack 41 and-- extends .to the height of the inner edge of the annular portion 42 of the rack. This screen prevents the water which is swished out by the operation of the paddles onto the dishes from carrying into the central portion of the bottom of the container the material that is Washed from the dishes. This material will collect beneath the annular portion 42 of the rack and on the outside of the screen so that paddles will swish upward only the water which sieves or passes through .the

screen 45 and consequently will cause only the clean water or water free from foreign matter, to swish up onto the dishes.

The receptacle is provided with a faucet 49-having a cock 46 which 1s secured by an ear and bolt 47 to the receptacle 1. It communicates with a depressed portion 48 in the the dish washer. in order to receive a portion of the water that is dashed upward by the operation of the plates.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

-.1. The combination of a receptacle, an annular rack for supporting articles above the bottom of the receptacle, a plurality of flanged vanes located centrally within the annular. rack for scooping watenfrom the bottom of the receptacle onto the articles, and a sieve surrounding the inner sideof the rack and extending to 'the bottom of the receptacle.

2. The combination of a receptacle, a rack covering the bottom of the receptacle for supporting articles above the bottom of the receptacle, a plurality of flanged vanes 10- cated centrally in the rack for scooping water from the bottom of the receptacle onto the articles placed on the rack, anda cylindrical sieve located concentrically with the receptacle and near the ends of the said vanes.

for supporting articles above the bottom of the receptacle, a plurality of flangedvanes for scooping the water from, the ottom of v 1 3.' The combination of a'receptacle, means 1 4. The combination of a receptacle, means for supporting articles above the bottom of the receptacle,- flan ed vanes for-scooping water onto the artic es, and a sieve for preventing the'material washed fromthe articles from bein directed onto the articles.

The combination of a receptacle, a'rack for supporting articles above the bottom of the receptacles, vanes for scooping water onto the articles, means for rotating the vanes-"adiametrically disposed bar for sup porting the said means, for releasably loc ing the ends of the said bar to the receptacle for the removal of the said parts 'from the receptacle, and latching rods extending radially across the'covers from the'bar t0 the outer wall of the receptacle for locking the covers to the bar and the wall of the receptacle. I

6. The combination of a race tacle, a rack for supporting articles above the bottom of the receptacle, vanes for scooping water onto the articles, means for rotating the vanes, a diametrically disposed bar for supwall of the receptacle and the bar having porting the said means, means for releasably slots in'which the ends of the rods engage.

locking the ends of the said bar to the re In testimony whereof, I have hereunto ceptacle for the removal of the said parts signed my name to this specification in the 5 from the receptacle, latching rods extending presence of two subscribing witnesses.

radially across the covers from the bar to the outer Wall of the receptacle for locking CORNELIUS DUSSEAU' the covers to the bar and the Wall of the re- Witnesses:

ceptacle, and handles located on the latch F. E. AUL,

10 rods for rotating thesaidlatch rods, the S. T. KLOTZ. 

